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“I'm going to bed, where I may die.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“A man accepts an inferior cup of tea, telling himself it is only a small thing. But what comes next? Do you see?”
― Patrick deWitt, Undermajordomo Minor

“If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Have you ever done this before?"
"Done what?"
"Attacked two armed men with sticks?"
"No, but I'm looking forward to it," he smiled.”
― John Lenahan, Shadowmagic

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Motto"

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“I shall not sit idly by and settle for anything other than a perfect cup of tea.”
― Patrick deWitt, Undermajordomo Minor

“I found a dead body in the cucumber patch,' I told them.

'How very like you,' Ophelia said, and went on preening her eyebrows.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

“I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“If you were able to hear lime juice, it would sound like violins.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

“Her hands started to reach out, but then retreated behind her back and consoled each other there. “I am so sorry. But surely you see any girl must be quite afraid to marry a man who could set her on fire with a word!” He’d dreamed of setting her alight with kisses. “Any man could set a girl on fire with a torch, but he’d have to be deranged!”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric’s Demon

“I guess that’s what rage is: the point where your words fail the power of your emotions.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

“You're worse than evil. You're inefficient.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric’s Mission

“Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“What's different now from 1804 or 1904 is that tuberculosis is curable, and has been since the mid-1950s. We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis. But we choose not to live in that world.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“And so we have entered a strange era of human history: A preventable, curable infectious disease remains our deadliest. That's the world we are currently choosing.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection